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stoodin South Africa's largestsoccer stadium and raisedclenched fists into the air.  \n\"Power,\"they shouted.  \nLike the roar of theocean,70,000 South Afri-can blacks shouted back:\"is ours!\"  \n\"Power,\"repeated themen with clenched fists,\"...is ours!\"roared thecrowd a second time.  \nThe ANC  \nThat was the remarkablescene late last month in ra-cially-divided South Africa.And it was a scene that  \n# CURRENT EVENTS\n\nA crowd of South African blacks demonds more of a voice in South Africa's govemmemt.          \n# CHANGES FOR SOUTH AFRICA?\n\nmany South Africans-bothblack and white—thoughtthey would never see.Theeight men are all leaders ofthe African National Con-gress(ANC)-an organiza-tion that is dedicated to theoverthrow of South Africa'swhite-minority govemnment.The ANC is banned by theSouth African govemmentYet,in an unexpected move,the government allowed therally as long as it remainedpeaceful.  \nAll eight men,led by 77-year-old Walter Sisulu,hadbeen in prison.But SouthAfrica's new president,  \nF.W.De Klerk,releasedSisulu and the others on a  \npromise that they would notcall for a violent overthrowof the govemment.NelsonMandela,the ANC's mostimportant leader,however,remains in prison.(See Fo-cus on the News.)  \n## War Against Apartheid\n\nDe Klerk's decision to re-lease ANC leaders and toallow a massive ANC rallygave hope to many,both inside and outside South Af-ricawho oppose apartheid(uh-PAR-tayt).Apartheid isSouth Africa's system of ra-cial laws.  \nApartheid is designed tokeep South Africa's racesapart,and,say its manycritics,to make sure thatwhites rule the country andblacks remain powerless.  \nSouth Africa's 36million  \npeople live in a mineral-richland twice the size of Texason the southern tip of Africa.Most South Africans一68 percent-are black.Justover 18 percent are white;16 percent are Colored(people of mixed race),and3 percent are Asian  \nApartheid requires theseracial groups to live,work,and play separately.Whites,say apartheid critics,live in good neighbor-hoods,have good jobs,andaccess to good schools andhospitals.Blacks,on theother hand,must live inspecial townships where,say critics,schools,hous-ing,and medical care aregenerally poor.Many blacktownships are little morethan slums on the outskirtsof South African cities.  \n(continued on page 2)  \nUnder South Africa'sconstitution,there arethree parliaments,or law-making bodies,one each forwhites,Coloreds,andAsians.The white parlia-ment,however,still holdsnearly all governmentpower.Left out is the blackmajority,which still doesnot even have the right tovote in national elections.  \n## World Condemation\n\nMost of the world hascondemned apartheid.South Africa has been expelled from most interna-tional organizations,including the UN and theOlympic Games.In 1986,the U.S.Congress passed alaw imposing sanctions(trade and business curbs)  \n2  \n## Nelson Mandela:Jailed Leader\n\nThe person who overshodowedthe African National Congress(ANC)rolly last month was nol ac-fually present.Nelson Mandelo,leoder of the ANC,was in prison.Buf a speaker at the rolly told thecrowd:\"Comrades,we can fakethis as o dress rehearsal for com-rade Nelson Mandela.\"  \nMandela has been in prison 27years.Sfill,South Africa's govern-ment leaders have recenily con-sulted him there.And SouthAfrica's blacks have never stoppedregarding him as their leoder.  \nNelson Mandela was born in1918 in the Tronskei territory ofSouth Africa.He could have fol-lowed in his fother's foolsfeps aschief of the Tembu tribe.But he al-fended coliege instead,receiving alaw degree in 1942.  \nHe joined the ANC and soon be-came a leader in it.In 1948,theSouth African government estab-lished aportheid,its program of  \nCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1  \non South Africa.The sanc-tions,among other things,forbid U.S.companies fromstarting new businesses inSouth Africa.Congressionalleaders hoped that thesanctions would send 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